Patreon, as you probably know, is a website used to support artists. By becoming a patron and making a monthly pledge to an artist, you help them do what they do and (usually) get secrets, art, surprises and more in return.

For $1+ a month, you can get access to what I’m doing now. I started making personal strips again on there, and I’m not posting them anywhere else. The comment system on Patreon allows for a better conversation and also blogging, which is great! If you’re interested in that and have $12/year or more to spare, I’d love to have you join the club.

While I’m not posting these comics elsewhere online, I may do a small print collection for shows or etsy later on down the line, so fret not if it’s not in the budget right now.

Thank you for your support over the years, my comics here and elsewhere are still free to read! Also, I’m writing Hellcat for Marvel now, so you should totally read that. And School Spirit. And Vampirella, when it comes out.

I have not updated Kate or Die in a long time, and it was sporadic before that. I still update on ComicsAlliance every other Monday and plan to continue to do so, but I keep yo-yoing on whether or not I actually want to keep working on these over here. It’s odd.

So many of my older comics, I look at and feel uncomfortable with. I was young and new on the internet and nobody was watching, so I said whatever came to mind. Some of these strips I’m very proud of, others I could go and revise until they were barely recognizable. I’ve deleted a few. Some things are better left in their strange pockets of the internet where my credit’s undoubtedly been erased, anyhow.

I stopped wanting to make personal comics awhile ago. When I reached a certain level, I had no control over where my comics went or who responded to them. I don’t mind this at all when it comes to the funny stuff or anything fictional – Bravest Warriors, Adventure Time, and now Power Up, etc – but when it’s really, really personal… it started to feel weird. I stopped wanting to be so open, I guess. I needed to keep some things for me. If you scroll back through these comics you can see me commenting about this, going back and forth on it, but this is where I am right now.

I think if I come back to webcomics it’ll be through fictional ones, but I’m really enjoying writing right now. I get to talk about things through a veil, from both my perspective and others, to incorporate my experiences while building new worlds and characters. It feels a little safer and a lot more challenging, in a way, and I’m having a lot of fun. I never expected or set out to become a writer, but I really, really love it, and I want to keep going!

Maybe it’s that life got better. I found somebody really wonderful and I’m about to move 3,000 miles away to be with him after fighting for my visa for 9 months. It’s been almost a year with him, and the funny thing is, I’m just not as angry anymore. There are still things I want to talk about, but the fury that drove my comics in the beginning has kind of abated. He makes me excited, drives me, but now it’s to tell fun stories, adventure stories, things full of heart and joy. I know the feeling, when an artist you like gets happy and their work suffers. Bear with me. Life’s sure to kick me in the face eventually and all the dark stuff will pull itself by its tendrils back to the surface. Comics are how I cope.

Playing with styles. Making comics on the Cintiq has changed me so much, and it’s so fun! You also may have noticed that I’ve made more comics in the last couple of weeks than I have in months. I think I finally got over my anxiety about making personal work… At least, for now.

I have this conversation with myself probably about once a week. In every friendship, relationship, job, project, what-have-you, I go through this high of a honeymoon phase where everything is perfect and wonderful and nothing could ever go wrong. It’s great. Then I remember my anxiety, my flaws, my doubts, and I become fixated on the idea that I am incapable of not ruining everything. It goes from a fear to a certainty, an obsession, and that obsession actually ends up ruining things. It feels like a horrible sort of inescapable paradox, and it’s been that way as long as I can remember.

I don’t always fuck it up, of course. Sometimes I do, sometimes I fight through it and everything is okay. Every single comics project I’ve been involved in in the last year has elicited at least one of these moments. {Oh god, that issue/drawing/pitch is bad, they’re going to fire me, I might as well quit.} It’s so frustrating. I am my own worst enemy.

“I’m going to stop making personal comics,” she said. Good lord. Never listen to me.

Little Ghost will be moving fully off-site and Kate or Die will remain as is – the weird, personal, emotional, infrequently-updating based on my current mental status beast that it always has been. Bless it.

Edward Scissorhands #3, Bravest Warriors #28 and the last issue of Fraggle Rock: Journey to the Everspring are all out now.

Thank you to IGN and everyone who voted for this incredibly surprising award:

EDIT: Little Ghost is now hosted on its OWN site, HERE. Go and read it! Okay!!!

Hi, everybody! It’s almost 2015. Maybe it’s 2015 already, as you read this? I’m trying to cover all my bases! This is a placeholder page for a little while, but fear not. I am Doing Things. They’re just not all right here.

This site neglected to update over the holidays as I was working on my Elves project. I drew one every day (or so) and eventually collected all of the ones from last year and this in a set you can buy on Gumroad. They may not still be relevant, but just in case, check ’em out!

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I am strongly considering moving the Little Ghost comics solely over to The Tumblr in the new year, and I do plan to start updating them again. You only have to click back once to see where I said I’d stop doing personal comics for awhile, but it turns out not to entirely be true, and besides I think it’s best to leave this as the collection of my embarrassing, ridiculous personal strips. I’m still updating new ones every two weeks over at ComicsAlliance, and I’ve even done a couple for The Nib, which is fantastic and I do really hope they’ll ask me back (hint, hint!). I’m all over the place these days.

Edward Scissorhands, Bravest Warriors and Fraggle Rock are all still coming out. Fraggle Rock’s almost done, and we’ve just been working on the bonus material for the hardcover, due out in spring.

The podcast, Less Than Live with Kate or Die, is 12 episodes in so far and still chugging along. I’ve been spending a lot of time in LA and we’re sorting out how to record from there, but I have faith! The podcast also has a Patreon, wherein you can chat with me and get first crack at questions and suggestions for the show. We’re coming up with new incentives, too! I have sent many voice and video memos, with more to come.

I’m going to be collaborating with Twitter’s Own @skullmandible on an Amazing World of Gumball backup strip, which is my first time drawing someone else’s words, so look for that in… Uh, a long time, probably, but I’ll let you know.

Otherwise I’m working on a book of dirty short stories and a larger project I am VERY excited about, which will be coming out summer 2015. It’s going to be super fun and I’m working on it with one of my best friends, so YAY HOORAY, etc.

I have no conventions planned until Staple in March, and then Emerald City Comicon. I just keep flying coast to coast to where the warmth and romance is. I gotta do me for awhile!

I think that’s about it. Just checking in. Hope your New Years is/was fantastic!!!